Exchange 2019

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Quick Tip: What Restarts Has Managed Availability Issued

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Exchange 2013 introduced the Managed Availability feature to provide a very capable automated monitoring and management framework.  Managed Availability allows Exchange to self diagnose and to self correct issues without having to escalate to a carbon life based unit for every issue.  Whilst Managed Availability may still have to page humans, the frequency is certainly reduced compared to Exchange… Read the rest “Quick Tip: What Restarts Has Managed Availability Issued”

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Exchange ServerName Points To Wrong Or Decommissioned Server

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

This post was promoted from the draft bin to production after a customer visit a couple of weeks ago.  When onsite we were looking at how the environment was configured.  The admins had written a series of scripts to determine the environment state which was excellent to see!  One thing that they had assumed though was that the ServerName attribute on a mailbox was where the database was currently … Read the rest “Exchange ServerName Points To Wrong Or Decommissioned Server”

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6 Mistakes To Avoid With Exchange 2013 CU Command Line Installations

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

The syntax to install Exchange Cumulative Updates (CU) via the command line is pretty straight forward. However there are some common themes that still pop up in the TechNet forums, cases and customers that I speak with.  So I wanted to discuss some of the issues that can and will arise.  There are a range of issues in here from:

  • Setup can't continue with the upgrade because the PowerShell has open
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Quick Tip – Sending Multiple Test Emails Using PowerShell (AKA Mailstorm)

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Mailstorm.exe was a utility to send multiple test emails to validate and test Exchange in the 5.5 timeframe, and was used on some of the Microsoft Official Curriculum (MOC) courses.

The utility is no longer used since relied upon a local Outlook install, and my fuzzy brain recalls issues with moving to "current" versions of Outlook such as Office XP.

This is no great loss as it is easy to send test … Read the rest “Quick Tip – Sending Multiple Test Emails Using PowerShell (AKA Mailstorm)”